The PSP had several good shooters for blasting on the go. These are a few of the best ones still available on the PSN store:. As noted previously, the Final Fantasy 7 spinoff Crisis Core , and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep are not available on the PSN store, although the latter has been remastered in subsequent Kingdom Hearts collections , and the former is slated for a remake soon as part of Ever Crisis. Now that PSP is no longer being updated with new games, these games can be a good selection for your game library if you still love playing on the PlayStation Portable handheld.
Features: It has the same open-world gameplay that allows you to roam the Liberty City areas freely. It allows you to add your own custom soundtracks to the game. It was released in for the Japanese market and for the US market. It retains some forms of accuracy in the storyline regarding Joan of Arc.
It is a tactical RPG where it gives you lots of time to strategize your moves in order to win the battles. Lots of interesting characters and lots of fantasy elements are found in this game. It follows the story of Adoi and Dogi in their effort to find more adventures to experience. It features beautiful musical soundtracks throughout the game.
It is an action RPG that offers a unique combat system that is both fun and enjoyable. You can have three characters in your party, with you controlling one of them. Lots of skills are available for you to use and learn. A PS2 version of the game was later released in Features: You can play the game fully as Clank from the Ratchet and Clank series. Clank can transform his size to beat the robots that are trying to kill him. It offers exciting action and platforming gameplay that tells the side story of Clank from the main Ratchet and Clank series.
There are also interactive rhythmic sessions that offer rhythmic-style gameplay during the sneaking process. There are lots of weapons and gadgets to use throughout your missions. Players can open up new sections, block parts of a track, or create obstacles that your opponents have to tackle. The PSP version has some subtle differences from the main console versions, including fine-tuning of the game mechanics and alterations that make racing on the PSP easier.
A new track featuring all three docks in one lap appears as a PSP only level too. As with the original Mega Man title, our blue-helmeted protagonist must stop the evil Dr Wily from destroying the world with his eight ginormous Robot Masters.
Mega Man might look mighty small in this title, but the Robot Masters still look pretty formidable! This is one of the best PSP games to play on long journeys and a great game to pick up and play while relaxing. Killzone: Liberation takes place eight weeks or two months if you prefer after the end of the first Killzone game for the PS2.
As well as shooting bad guys and trying to stay alive, there is a collecting element to the game too. By hoarding money cases that you find and completing certain tasks, players can upgrade weapons, discover new abilities, and eventually carry more items that can help them throughout the game.
With five stages comprising of twenty levels to play through, this is a game that will certainly give you value for money. Legends is essentially a mash-up of the first three Burnout games. All of the modes from the previous games feature in Legends including World Tour, Eliminator, and Face-Off, the latter giving users the chance to win legendary cars.
The best modes, however, have to be Road Rage and Pursuit. Road Rage requires players to drive badly, earning points for causing other cars to crash, while Pursuit sees gamers taking control of a cop car as they take down drivers.
There are 95 cars to unlock and race with in Burnout Legends, all of which are from Burnout 2 and 3. If you lose, however, then you lose your collector car!
This version is actually a sequel to the original Little Big Planet and sees Sackboy taking a trip around the world on his holidays. From Persia to Australia, and the Alpine Mountains to China, Sackboy meets different native characters from each of the countries he visits who help him on his many adventures.
There are 23 main levels and 14 exciting mini levels to play through as Sackboy collects prize bubbles containing everything from stickers to new costumes.
One of the best parts of this game was the level creator, where players could make their own levels for Sackboy to traverse through. Gamers could upload these for other users to play all over the globe, but sadly, the Little Big Planet servers closes forever in They might claim that size matters, but this portable powerhouse is an absolute belter of a game, proving that handheld titles can be just as exciting as their home console counterparts.
Once again, the PSP provides stunning graphics. And despite being interupted from their holidays, Ratchet and Clank set about rescuing a captured girl and dealing with the Technomites with a smile on their faces. Upgrade weapons, acquire armour, and work your way through tonnes of exciting levels alongside lots of memorable characters that never fail to pull you back into the game time and time again.
Size Matters gained the accolade of handheld of the month back in with critics loving the pint-sized adventure and some of the new features it boasted. I love Ratchet and Clank, and the formula that make this series great has proven successful once again! This game looks superb on the PSP, giving us yet another example of how incredible and ahead of its time this device truly is. There are eight teams in Wipeout Pulse, and each ship has an energy field that protects the ship from bashes and crashes.
If your energy runs out, then your ship explodes! The game only features twelve tracks, but players can race these both forwards and backwards, essentially providing a mirror mode and taking the number to Up to 8 people could battle it out online using some of the best weapons known to gaming-kind, stealthily moving through trenches and battling it out on dark and shady-looking maps.
The multiplayer servers are now sadly offline, but players can still enjoy the epic story mode in this game. With Resistance 2 in the disc tray, gamers could fire up Retribution and play it using the PS3 controller. The DualShock rumble worked perfectly too! This is a game where you have to be present and alert at all times, a title where you WILL die a lot and have to come back to the same point and repeat the process all over again.
It requires more patience than a Christmas shopper in a Best Buy queue and the planning that you need to put into taking out some of the bigger foes is tantamount to military strategy. That being said, the feeling that you get when you finally bring down the big monsters and stand victorious is probably up there with winning an Olympic medal.
As the player, you are tasked with moving Jeanne and her team through a very different looking France as she battles demon soldiers that are fighting on the side of the British empire. Wielding a sacred armlet that grants her special powers, Jeanne must push back the forces of evil in a turn-based RPG that has surprises hidden around every corner.
The gameplay is incredibly unique and the battles are very well thought out. It has one of the greatest plotlines of any handheld game and makes all of the after school clubs you went to as a kid seem boring beyond belief! You must unlock the mysteries of the Dark Hour, a period between the end of one day and the beginning of the next where one can reach a world filled with evil monsters. This game is an absolute belter from beginning to end and is and one of my favourite RPG titles for the console.
The PSP also lets you fight as a male or female protagonist which is a nice touch. This game starts where the last title left off, giving you a chance to cross the Rainbow Bridge and discover the secrets and hidden perils of a brand new land.
Can you remember Donkey Konga for the GameCube? Patapon 3 is a little like that, with the gameplay of Lemmings and the graphics of Viewtiful Joe. The Patapons march in time to the drum beats that you play out by pressing the PSP face buttons, all the while moving towards battles with the seven evil arch-fiends in a 2D world filled with exciting obstacles and rich scenery that you might not expect from a side-scrolling game.
This Patapon title is definitely less confusing compared to some of its predecessors and mega fun once you get into the swing of things. This time Daxter is going solo and working his way through the game as a bug exterminator while searching for his buddy, Jak. Loco Roco 2 sees gamers once again taking control of a colourful planet filled with critters. You can use certain buttons to turn the planet and others to organise the Loco Roco as they move through the different areas.
Ad hoc mode supports up to four local players, and unlockables include characters, stages, artwork and music. Another amazing Konami shmup collection that never made it to the US. Salamander is of course the classic Gradius spin-off better known in the West as Life Force.
This is perhaps the most interesting shoot-em-up compilation available for the PSP considering its inclusion of such obscure titles. Six classic Samurai Shodown games are included creating hours of playtime for 2D fighting fans.
The only downside is that as great as the games look on PSP, there is some baffling slowdown occurrences that stop them from being truly arcade perfect. Sega has recently done a great job of compiling their classic bit games together for various consoles, and the PSP release is a great example of what it looks like when done correctly.
Nearly 30 games are included some need to be unlocked ranging from every major genre. The inclusion of all three Genesis Phantasy Star games alone should make this collection worth the price of admission considering the amount of time that can be spent on them.
And of course many classics are present — Sonic, Ecco and Shinobi all make multiple appearances. But its some of the obscure titles that may even make you happiest, like the inclusion of Super Zaxxon for the first time in the US. Extras include save states, game galleries, and ad hoc multiplayer.
For retro enthusiasts this is definitely an indispensable UMD. Indeed the number of high-quality games makes this collection an excellent value. The four face button layout of the PSP certainly fares well for NeoGeo games, though the slowdown present in some of the titles can be a real letdown from an otherwise excellent collection.
This prequel to Arcade Classics was released in , though sadly only got a physical release in Japan. Of course collectors will most likely opt to import this one and get all of the included titles at once.
And an intriguing collection it is! Rather than compile more high profile games, SNK has put together a resume outlining what got them to the top of the arcades. Games like Athena and Psycho Soldier will certainly trigger a bit of nostalgia for some, but the realization that these early games were sometimes embarrassingly bad paints a fascinating piece of history for SNK fanatics.
The PSP is never thought of as a major shoot-em-up platform, but in Japan it got plenty of shmup action. This is another instance where all four individual titles have been released on the PlayStation Network with the option to play them either on PSP or PS3. But collectors will likely want to seek this out in its imported physical form. And a full game-share system allows sharing of full games to another PSP via ad hoc wireless.
This is definitely a nice collection for those interested in exploring some games off the beaten path. Yet another Japan-only collection of shmups. This one is focused on the vertical cute-em-ups known as TwinBee. Once again Konami does a great job of packaging four games of the series together with wonderful packaging and presentation.
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